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The Impact of Interwar Protection : Evidence from India
Arthi, Vellore - 2020
Research on the quantitative impact of interwar protection on trade flows remains scarce, and much of it has concluded that the impact was surprisingly small. In this paper we ask: Did Indian interwar protection hurt UK manufacturers, by raising tariffs on manufactured imports? Or did it favour...
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Chinese Firm and Industry Reactions to Antidumping Initiations and Measures
Li, Chunding - 2010
Because of large and rapid growing export volumes and its formal status as a non-market economy; China has been the … are against China; India, in turn, is the largest source of initiation against China by number of actions. Here we explore …
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Measuring Changes in the Bilateral Technology Gaps between China, India and the U.S. 1979 - 2008
Shen, Keting - 2015
's technology gaps both with the U.S. and India between 1979 and 2008, comparing the technology level of these economies using a CES … India and the U.S. for the period before 2008. The pairwise gaps between the U.S. and China, and the U.S. and India remain … productivity than India over the period, the bilateral technology gap between China and India is still in India's favor. India had …
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The Revived Bretton Woods System's First Decade
Dooley, Michael P. - 2014
cycle. Finally, recent policy initiatives suggest that India is poised to replace China as the dominant periphery country …
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Riding the Wave of Trade : Explaining the Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization
Huberman, Michael - 2009
The received view pins the adoption of labor regulation before 1914 on domestic forces. Using directed dyad-year event history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to encourage a level playing field. The type of trade...
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A Long Term Perspective on the Euro
Bordo, Michael D. - 2008
This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary cooperation and of monetary unions, above all in the U.S., Germany and Italy. The purpose of national monetary unions was to reduce transactions costs of multiple currencies and...
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International Policy Coordination : The Long View
Eichengreen, Barry - 2011
This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues that successful cooperation is most likely in four sets of circumstances. First, when it centers on technical issues. Second, when cooperation is institutionalized - when...
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Coping with Shocks and Shifts : The Multilateral Trading System in Historical Perspective
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2011
shifts. By shocks we mean sudden jolts to the world economy in the form of financial crises and deep recessions, or wars and …
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Defying Gravity : The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation of Canadian Trade
Jacks, David S. - 2011
In the wake of the Great Depression, the Canadian government embarked on a stunning reversal in its commercial policy. A key element of its response was the promotion of intra-imperial trade at the Imperial Economic Conference of 1932. This paper addresses whether or not Canadian trade was able...
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The Empire Project : Trade Policy in Interwar Canada
Lampe, Markus; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Reiter, Lorenz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper uses a new dataset on the universe of Canadian imports and tariffs between 1924 and 1936, disaggregated into 1697 goods originating in 112 countries, to analyze the impact on Canadian imports of interwar Canadian trade policy, including the 1932 Ottawa trade agreements. Rather than...
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